Aslak Nore (b. 1978) is an author and editor who grew up in Oslo. He has studied in New York, served in Norway’s elite Telemark Battalion in Bosnia, lived in Latin America, and worked as a journalist in the Middle East. Nore resides in Provence with his family.

Since his debut in 2007, Nore has established himself as one of his generation’s most interesting authors of both fiction and non-fiction, most recently with the epic literary thrillers in The Falck Saga. He has received numerous awards, including the Riverton Prize and been shortlisted for a number of others, among those the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize and the Petrona Award.

Food, glamour, history – and a rivalry with deadly consequences.

A Swedish director and his stars travel to Rome to seek inspiration from the legendary life of Queen Christina ahead of an upcoming major motion picture. But after tours of Roman ruins, the treasures of the Vatican, and the film sets of Cinecittà, it becomes clear that the group harbors both tensions and secrets, and the glamour is abruptly shattered when a body is discovered in one of Rome’s most magnificent palazzos.

In the Eternal City, shaped over millennia by rivalry and power struggles, tour guide Lara Belmonte and history teacher Hugo Lind are once again drawn into a deadly mystery. Somewhere beneath the Italian sun, a murderer is hiding.

Rivals in Rome is the third book in the bestselling Murders Under the Sun series, featuring sun-drenched settings, great food, and intriguing murder mysteries.

Josef has served his sentence but outside the prison walls life is not what it once was. He’s determined not to return to a life of crime, but reality hits him hard. Can you really make up for your crimes in a society that has judged you for all eternity?

On the opposite side of the planet, Antonia is trying to escape her past. When she suddenly finds herself all alone she realizes it’s time to return to the Stockholm suburb where she grew up. A whole other battle awaits there, and Antonia needs to create a new life for herself while drugs are still controlling her every thought.

The Mansour family protects their territories with all their might, but they must also find new ways to expand. Josef is pulled into the clan’s plans and Antonia risks getting caught in their web. Soon, the war is on.

The War is the second installment in The Clan trilogy and a stirring portrayal of gang criminality’s reckless violence and effect on our society, a violence designed to uphold a power balance that is constantly challenged by the ongoing gang wars.

One year after the events in The Scream, true crime podcaster Markus Heger meets former financier Terje Wekre, who has been sentenced to the harshest penalty under the law for murdering his wife. Wekre claims he is innocent, and Markus is persuaded to listen – especially since his persistent father, Frank Drage, is in the cell next door.

The new podcast serial, A Shadow of Doubt, gets off to an explosive start. Markus suggests a possible miscarriage of justice, but gradually the evidence points in a completely different direction.

The Doubt is an intense and atmospheric thriller about guilt, revenge, and trust, and about how the past always finds a way back.

The secret life of a star chef.

Recently divorced and disillusioned by life, freelance journalist Desiree Swahn is handed a job by her new boss: to write a portrait of legendary star chef, Pierre Bernard. It’s an assignment far from the prestigious one she’d been promised. But Desiree and Pierre’s meeting will come to be more transformative than she could have ever imagined.

Pierre Bernard’s life hasn’t only been filled with culinary accomplishments, but also passionate love and heart-rending sorrow. He takes Desiree on a journey through time, from the Grand Hotel in Stockholm in the 1920s, to Paris and a war-torn London, to a Budapest in upheaval, and the most iconic wedding of the century. In Pierre’s stories, history is given scent, texture, taste. Desiree comes to know a man who has dedicated his life to discovering new culinary sensations, but has likewise sacrificed much. By the time the interview is over, everything has changed.

Salted Pearls is the debut fiction title of Michelin-starred chef Niklas Ekstedt and author Katarina Ekstedt.